FC3 Install Succeeds, but smartd fails on boot

[Crisler, Jon]

It appears that SATA is not supported by SmartD.  You should just disable it.  Smartd is a predictive failure analysis program that monitors hard drives that support the Smartd standard....if it detects certain trends of errors in your hard drive, it is supposed to warn you as such, to give you plenty of time to back up your data and plan for a HD replacement.
 
Since the drive does not support it, you are not gaining anything by running it, but you are loosing a bit of memory.  perhaps you could keep an eye out for smartd updates, but beyond that just disable it for now.

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	From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Jess Anderson 
	Sent: Thu 3/17/2005 9:46 PM 
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	Subject: FC3 Install Succeeds, but smartd fails on boot
	
	

	After considerable struggle -- it helped to get new install
	disks from a friend on campus, but even so there were a lot of
	problems. More on that later, perhaps.
	
	Note too that this machine is still vanilla FC3, no updates
	installed yet.
	
	The machine appears to be running fairly well, but I notice
	during bootup that smartd fails to start, and this is noted on
	the console at the time and in /var/log/boot.log.  Doing a
	service smartd status yields an interesting message:
	
	smartd dead but subsys locked
	
	I've just discovered by trying to start it manually (service
	smartd start) that syslog gets an explanation (it probably did
	before, too, but I didn't notice):
	
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd[4028]: smartd version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu]
	                                     Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd[4028]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ 
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd[4028]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd[4028]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed.
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd[4028]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd[4028]: Device /dev/sda, SATA disks accessed via libata
	                                     are not currently supported by smartmontools. When
	                                     libata is given an ATA pass-thru ioctl() then an
	                                     additional '-d libata' device type will be added
	                                     to smartmontools.
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd[4028]: Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 1
	                                     of file /etc/smartd.conf
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd[4028]: Unable to register device /dev/sda (no Directive
	                                     -d removable). Exiting.
	Mar 17 20:32:06 hypnos smartd: smartd startup failed
	
	That makes sense, I guess.
	
	My question is (I boot to runlevel 3, btw): Should I just not
	fire up smartd, or will an update take care of this when I
	install them all, or what?
	
	Associated question: are there bad consequences of not running
	it?
	
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